The Central and Eastern Europe pay TV market monitor provides an in-depth insight into the key trends affecting the pay TV market in the CEE region in 2017. It includes data and analysis on pay TV operators, their subscribers and revenues, key M&A activity in the region, and the impact of online TV services on pay TV growth. The report focuses on the top eight CEE markets; Poland, Russia, Romania, Hungary, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Serbia and Bulgaria.

HMD Global launched five new mobile phones at MWC 2018, all with striking industrial design. By choosing to only offer handsets with Google's pure Android One or Android Oreo (Go Edition), HMD threatens to disrupt established OEMs with legacy software. The new Nokia 8110 demonstrates featurephones are evolving now with LTE and will not die soon. HMD's flagship Nokia 8 Sirocco has a stunning steel-framed dual curved edge display in a super compact frame which will target Europe.

Samsung is packing its main innovative push into the cameras of its latest flagship Galaxy S devices. With the new super slow motion video capture, Samsung has improved on previous industry attempts to commercialize this feature. The Galaxy S9 and S9 Plus are strong handset designs which evolve from 2017’s excellent S8. They are markedly different in camera quality and display size from the two to three year old smartphones potential customers own now which should boost upgrades. However, consumers may delay purchase because of rising flagship prices.

At MWC Sony Mobile unveiled two new smartphones, Xperia XZ2, XZ Compact and the commercial launch for its Xperia Duo wearable. The importance of Sony’s innovations with these new smartphones will set the tone for the smartphone market for the next few years. IHS Markit expects other smartphone OEMs to deliver similar capabilities in the future including copying Sony’s 4K HDR video capture. But there is much more work needed to re-build Sony’s smartphone business and achievable sustainable profitability.

The European Broadband Cable Yearbook, produced in association with trade body Cable Europe, is widely recognised as the definitive guide to the European Cable Industry. Published continuously for over a decade, this annual report contains detailed data on the size and value of the cable industry in all European Union countries as well as other European Economic Area markets. With company-level information and market wide analysis it shows trends in cable uptake, digital progression, revenue and ARPU, broadband cable and cable telephony. Also includes a written summary of the cable industry developments within each country over the last year.

The European Broadband Cable Yearbook, produced in association with trade body Cable Europe, is widely recognised as the definitive guide to the European Cable Industry. Published continuously for over a decade, this annual report contains detailed data on the size and value of the cable industry in all European Union countries as well as other European Economic Area markets. With company-level information and market wide analysis it shows trends in cable uptake, digital progression, revenue and ARPU, broadband cable and cable telephony. Also includes a written summary of the cable industry developments within each country over the last year.

IHS forecasts for Netflix’s International territories have been slightly reduced to 38m for 2016 and 75.7m for 2020, a reduction of around 1m for the 5 year outlook. For the US 2016 forecasts have been adjusted to 48.3m subscribers.

Public broadcasters are facing a converging threat from cost-cutting and the development of new technology. This report analyses the tough choices facing the BBC, benchmarking its funding against 45 countries and making a detailed comparison of the UK institution with its major European peers.

Ben Keen, Vice President, Consumer, Media, Telecoms & Displays, presented the new edition of the European Broadband Cable report, which details the latest growth trends in the European Union cable industry and examines the industry's strategic direction.

Ted Hall, Research Director for IHS Technology’s Television team, delivers a thought provoking presentation on the future of television channels in the increasingly crowded global television landscape. This was presented at IHS' 23rd Annual PEVE Entertainment Business Futures 2015 Conference

Ted Hall, Research Director for IHS Technology’s Television team, presents his views on the challenges ahead for PayTV with the growing power of Over-the-Top services. This was delivered at IHS' 23rd Annual PEVE Entertainment Business Futures 2015 Conference.

The European Broadband Cable Yearbook, produced in association with trade body Cable Europe, is widely recognised as the definitive guide to the European Cable Industry. Published continuously for over a decade, this annual report contains detailed data on the size and value of the cable industry in all European Union countries as well as other European Economic Area markets. With company-level information and market wide analysis it shows trends in cable uptake, digital progression, revenue and ARPU, broadband cable and cable telephony. Also includes a written summary of the cable industry developments within each country over the last year.

Polish broadcaster TVN is pushing further into online with an investment in five original series. The first series, a Polish version of US comedy Web Therapy, will launch on TVN’s Player.pl service on 21 October. Speaking at the Mipcom TV market in Cannes this morning, TVN executives said the 10 episode series will cost 1 million zlotys ($266 million), a similar budget to one of its traditional linear TV series. Between Q4 this year and Q1 2016, TVN will also debut two reality series, Lip Sync Battle and Start U Up, documentary series My Love Story and drama co-production Cape Town.

The media Transport Services workbook offers and unparalleled view to every professional aiming to learn about satellite (including Teleport/Uplink services), fibre, CDN and terrestrial markets and their revenues globally, regionally and per country. All data is shown from 2006 and forecasted 5 years ahead. It is formatted in a way to compare each transport method across same region and country. Additionally, it exemplifies combined media revenues of 10 largest service providers falling under the Transport category.

The media web services workbook looks at the market for third-party provision of extended online video platform (OVP) services, cloud computing, monetization, analytics and content personalisation in the media industry. As companies are aiming to expand their customers’ base and capacity with lower infrastructure cost (CapEx) and in an efficiency manner, more media businesses are transitioning to the web-based technologies rapidly (OpEx).

The media processing managed service workbook looks at the market for third-party provisioned Media Asset Management and Linear Playout for media companies. As equipment-based revenue growth has slowed down in recent years, and as broadcasters/operators look to centralise and optimise efficiency of content creation, processing and distribution, the outsourcing of such services to third-parties has become increasingly prevalent.

Mobile operator Orange has launched a range of new smartphone aimed at lowering the barrier to entry to 4G. The devices range in price between €79 and €239 and will be on sale across all of Orange's European footprint.

Guy Bisson presented at Cable Congress 2014 in Amsterdam, detailing the latest growth trends in the European Union cable industry and examining the strategic direction that the industry is taking. The presentation draws on data and analysis produced in co-operation with Cable Europe, the trade body for European cable.